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Tech Skills

Coding (R, Python, SQL, bash, git, GitHub/GitLab)
Data preprocessing and analysis
Reproducible research
Teaching and community building
Science communication

Hobbies

Triathlon, climbing, snowboarding, food, comedy.

Resources

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Becki Green

Passionate doctoral researcher with a keen interest in open, collaborative science and dementia research. Pronouns: she/her.

Education

PhD, Neuroscience Research

Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London

N/A

2022 - 2019

  • Awards: Enrichment scholarship student at the Alan Turing Insititute (2020-2022) with access to facilities, mentoring and courses.
  • Additional responsibilities: Member of the Turing Steering Group as a student representative.

MSc, Genes, Environment and Development in Psychology and Psychiatry (Distinction, 78%)

Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London

N/A

2018 - 2017

  • Awards: King’s Interdisciplinary Award in Art, Science & Mental Health.

MSc, Biomedical Sciences Research (Merit, 69%)

Medical Sciences - University of Bristol

N/A

2015 - 2014

  • Additional responsibilities: Elected student council representative.

Bsc, Physiological Science (2:1)

Medical Sciences - University of Bristol

N/A

2013 - 2010

  • Additional responsibilities: Elected chair and cofounder of MedSciSoc (BSc Medical Sciences society).

Research & Industry Experience

DECOVID project collaborator

The Alan Turing Institute

N/A

2022 - 2021

  • Working with and characterising electronic health record data contained in a PostGres database in a data safe haven. Creating reproducible pipelines to enable collaboration across research teams. Assessing data quality and evaluating against a data ethics framework. Led by Dr Kirstie Whitaker.
  • Contributing to The Turing Way - a community-driven handbook for reproducible, ethical and collaborative data science.

PhD Student

Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London

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2022 - 2019

  • Thesis: Linking blood metabolites to early dementia using systems biology. Supervisors: Dr Petroula Proitsi & Professor Marcus Richards.
  • Utilising network, pathway and metabolome-wide approaches to highlight key metabolites influencing early markers of dementia - including imaging, blood and cognition measures - in large cohort studies. Teasing apart the involvement of risk factors across the life course and using statistical genetics approaches, such as mendelian randomisation and polygenic scores, to further understand the nature of these relationships.

Transfer learning project collaborator

The Alan Turing Institute

N/A

2021

  • Developing and applying transfer learning methodologies to map non-overlapping features and build prediction models for conversion to dementia. Led by Professor David Lewellyn.

Freelance Editor

Cactus Communications - Worldwide

N/A

2019 - 2018

  • Editing, formatting, and proofreading scientific manuscripts prior to journal submission in the field of Life Sciences.

Masters Student

Institute of Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience - King’s College London

N/A

2018

  • Investigating the relationships between polygenic risks scores for hypothalamic pituitary axis function, stressful life events, and the development of emotional problems.

Research Officer

NIHR Clinical Research Network West of England - Bristol

N/A

2017 - 2016

  • Managing the set up and delivery of primary care clinical research studies in 59 sites. Championing research in the West of England, and leading events to promote patient and public involvement. Undertaking audits into research delivery and performance.

Research Assistant (Healthcare)

NIHR Clinical Research Network West of England - Bristol

N/A

2016

  • Supporting the delivery of clinical trials. Leading study specific training in the West of England as well as utilising clinical skills to carry out and document trials.

Masters Student

Clinical Research Imaging Centre - Bristol

N/A

2015

  • Developing and evaluating the use of a cognitive-motor task as a quantitative measure of fatigue using functional fMRI in healthy volunteers.

Teaching Experience

Big Data with Python

Skill lead (2021-22), Teaching assistant (2020), BSc Psychology - King’s College London

N/A

2022 - 2020

  • Roles: Course design and material creation, seminar and practical leader, marking, forum management, evaluation and feedback.
  • Content: Data wrangling, visualisation, and intro to machine learning.

Origins of Individual Differences

Teaching assistant, BSc Psychology - King’s College London

N/A

2022 - 2019

  • Roles: Course design and material creation, seminar and practical lead, marking.
  • Content: Social, genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences.

Reproducible Reporting Using Markdown

Workshop assistant, open to all researchers - DEMON Network

N/A

2021

  • Roles: Assisting with workshop design and delivery.
  • Content: Markdown, git and GitHub.

Research Methods

Teaching assistant, BSc Psychology - King’s College London

N/A

2020

  • Roles: Marking.
  • Content: Statistical methods in SPSS and R.

Mendelian Randomisation

Teaching assistant, MSc Neuroscience - King’s College London

N/A

2020 - 2019

  • Roles: Assisting with seminar design and delivery.
  • Content: Mendelian Randomisation in R.

Polygenic Summer School

Workshop assistant, open to all researchers - London

N/A

2019

  • Roles: Assisting with workshop delivery.
  • Content: Genome-wide association studies and polygenic risk scores.

Volunteer Work

Rethink Mental Illness

London, UK

N/A

2019 - 2018

  • Raising funds and participating in photoshoots and blogs to encourage others to fundraise.

Crisis at Christmas

Birmingham, UK

N/A

2017 - 2014

  • Assisting with the set up and delivery of food, shelter and entertainment for Crisis service users over the Christmas period.

Kissing it Better

Warwick, UK

N/A

2014 - 2012

  • Assisting and implementing strategies to improve care environments for inpatients with dementia.

Cherry Trees Care Home

Alcester, UK

N/A

2012 - 2010

  • Assisting with care and entertainment in a local nursing home for individuals with dementia.

Publications

The Turing Way: A Handbook for Reproducible Data Science

Zenodo

N/A

2021

Metabolic correlates of late midlife cognitive function: findings from the 1946 British Birth Cohort

Under review

N/A

2021

  • Green., R., Lord, J., Xu, J., Maddock, J., Kim, M., Dobson, R., … Protisi, P.

Assessing Genetic Overlap and Causality Between Blood Plasma Proteins and Alzheimer’s Disease

Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease

N/A

2021

  • Handy, A., Lord, J., Green, R., Xu, J., Aarsland, D., Velayudhan, L., … Proitsi, P.

Disentangling independent and mediated causal relationships between blood metabolites, cognitive factors, and Alzheimer’s Disease

Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science

N/A

2021

  • Lord, J., Green, R., Choi, S.W., Hubel, C., Aarsland, D., Velayudhan, L., … Proitsi, P.

Mendelian randomization identifies blood metabolites previously linked to midlife cognition as causal candidates in Alzheimer’s disease

PNAS

N/A

2021

  • Lord, J., Jermy, B., Green, R., Wong, A., Xu, J., Legido-Quigley, C., … Proitsi, P.

Integrated lipidomics and proteomics network analysis highlights lipid and immunity pathways associated with Alzheimer’s disease

Translational Neurodegeneration

N/A

2020

  • Xu, J., Bankov, G., Min, K., Wretlind, A., Lord, J., Green, R., … Legido-Quigley, C.

Investigating the role of blood metabolites as biomarkers of cognitive function and dementia in the MRC 1946 British Birth Cohort

European Neuropsychopharmacology [Conference Abstract]

N/A

2019

  • Green, R., Lord, J., Maddock, J., Kim, M., Dobson, R., Legido-Quigley, C., … Proitsi, P.

Presentations

Turing Community Week

Oral

The Alan Turing Institute

2021

Turing Student Seminar

Oral

The Alan Turing Institute

2021

Research Showcase

Oral & poster

The Alan Turing Institute

2021

Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute
Centre Talk

Oral

King’s College London

2020

Maudsley BRC Training Conference

Oral & poster

King’s College London

2020

International Society of Clinical Biostatistics
Annual Conference

Oral & poster

Krakow (virtual)

2020

Alzheimer’s Association International Conference

Poster

Amsterdam (virtual)

2020

Alzheimer’s Research UK Conference

Poster

Cardiff (virtual)

2020

World Congress of Psychiatric Genetics

Poster (Guarantors of Brain Travel Award - £1000)

Anaheim, USA

2019

Maudsley BRC Annual Conference

Oral & poster

King’s College London

2019

Dementia Research Open Day

Oral (to public)

King’s College London

2019